Swords, Saints & Strange Customs
Celtic warriors used this plant to create blue body paint.
What is woad?
This Frankish king promised to become Christian if Christ helped him win the Battle of Tolbiac.
Who is Clovis?
This Christian doctrine teaches that there is one God in three Persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
What is Trinitarianism?
There are seven of these major land divisions on Earth.
What are the continents?
This is the Arabic word commonly translated as "recitation" and the name of Islam's sacred scripture.
What is the Quran?
This term describes a religious person who lived on top of a pillar as an act of devotion.
What is a stylite?
This emperor ordered Roman laws to be collected and organized in a famous legal compilation
Who is Justinian I?
This teaching, rejected by the early church, denied that the Son was fully equal and co-eternal with the Father.
What is Arianism?
Name the five oceans of the world.
What are the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern, and Arctic Oceans?
This Muslim commander led the invasion of the Iberian Peninsula in AD 711.
Who is Tariq ibn Ziyad?
This bishop wrote an important biography of Anthony of Thebes, an early Christian monk.
Who is Athanasius of Alexandria?
This pope crowned Charlemagne Emperor of the Romans on Christmas Day in AD 800
Who is Pope Leo III?
In Roman Catholic teaching, this is a state of purification after death before entering heaven.
What is purgatory?
Mecca and Medina are located in this region of western Arabia.
What is the Hijaz?
This Ostrogothic ruler's murder helped trigger the Gothic War.
Who is Amalasuintha?
Name the three traditional monastic vows that involve possessions, submission to authority, and sexual abstinence
What are poverty, obedience, and chastity?
This donation of territory helped establish the Papal States and increased the pope's political power?
What is the Donation of Pepin?
This Roman Catholic teaching concerns what happens to the bread and wine during the Eucharist.
What is transubstantiation?
This major European river flows from the Alps toward the North Sea and was important for trade and transportation.
What is the Rhine River?
These are prayers offered to ask God to show mercy to people who have died.
What are prayers for the dead?
After Roman rule declined, two major cultural groups shaped Britain: the people who remained from the Celtic population and the Germanic peoples who migrated there. Name both groups.
Who are the Romanized Britons and the Anglo-Saxons?
Frankish inheritance customs often divided a king's lands among his sons. Explain one political problem this could cause.
The kingdom could be divided into smaller territories, weakening central power and creating rivalries among heirs.
Name the fifth-century church council that affirmed Christ's full divinity and full humanity, and the pope whose important letter influenced its theological discussions.
What are the Council of Chalcedon and Pope Leo I
Identify the four countries associated with the Fenno-Scandinavian Peninsula.
Finland, Denmark, Sweden and Iceland
Charlemagne's coronation strengthened the connection between the Frankish kingdom and the Roman Church. Identify one political tension it created.
It raised questions about the relative authority of the pope and the emperor and complicated relations with the Byzantine Empire.